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Today
Review free resources from the National Resource Center for Recruitment and Retention of Foster and Adoptive Parents at AdoptUSKids highlighting ideas for diligent recruitment.
This Week
Review data on the number and characteristics of children waiting in your agency. Compare data on race and ethnicity to the general population to identify over-represented groups who will become your recruitment targets.
This Month
Target recruitment efforts by reaching out to communities that reflect the children in foster care. Read an overview of the Market Segmentation process (PDF - 324 KB) from AdoptUSKids
Diligently Recruit
Diligent recruitment means recruiting adoptive and foster parents who are members of the race and ethnicity of children in foster care. To practice diligent recruitment, States and agencies need to review their data on waiting children in care, compare the information with data on the general population by race and ethnicity, and then target their recruitment efforts in the communities that reflect the race and ethnicity of the children in care, particularly those who are overrepresented compared to the general population. States are required to address diligent recruitment efforts in the Child and Family Services Plan (CFSP). Find resources in this section to help with diligent and targeted recruitment, including information about the Adoption Opportunities diligent recruitment grantee projects funded by the Children's Bureau.
Spotlight On
Adoption Opportunities: Diligent
Recruitment of Families for Children in the Foster Care System
AdoptUSKids
Diligent
Recruitment Projects on AdoptUSKids Site
Children's Bureau Express, 11(4), 2011
A 2011 National Adoption Month Capacity Building Toolkit: Diligent Recruitment (PDF - 3,000 KB)
AdoptUSKids (2011)
Census Data Online: State Profiles: KIDS COUNT 2000
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Engaging African American Communities and Organizations to Support Foster Care
and Adoption for Children in the Child Welfare System (PDF - 4854 KB)
National Resource Center for Adoption
The Roundtable, 25(1), 2011
MEPA/IEAP, Diligent Recruitment
Child Welfare Policy Manual
Understanding and Complying With Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Multiethnic
Placement Act of 1994, as Amended by the Interethnic Adoption Provisions of 1996
National Resource Center for Adoption (2010)
Multiethnic Placement Act curriculum
Targeted Recruitment
AdoptUSKids
Wendy's Wonderful Kids
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption